EFCC arrest 19 staff of a fake investment company that defrauded people to the tune of two billion naira in Port Harcourt



EFCC arrest 19 staff of a fake investment company that defrauded people to the tune of two billion naira in?Port Harcourt
  Port Harcourt’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  Zonal Office have arrested 19 staff of a fake investment company floating an alleged Ponzi Scheme that have defrauded members of the public to the tune of N2,000,000,000( Two Billion Naira only).

The  company,  Bluekey Investment Club, operating from Sonia Mall, 42 Woji Road, YKC Junction, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission( CAC) as a Software Development and General Contracting Firm,  but allegedly veered into an interest-yielding  Ponzi Scheme with  ten percent (10%) weekly returns on investment over (6) Months.  The Scheme also promised total returns of invested capital after six (6) Months.


EFCC arrest 19 staff of a fake investment company that defrauded people to the tune of two billion naira in?Port Harcourt

Nineteen( 19) staff of the company were rounded up on Friday,  August 30, 2019  in Port Harcourt.  Among them are five Principal Officers:  Princess Tsaroigbara( Public Relations Officer) ; Onwusa Frances Chineze( Accountant); Naabe Gunugu( Payment Confirmation Staff), Tambari Success( Customer Service) and Anorue Maureen( Receptionist). The Chairman of the company: Neenwi Swanu was at large as at the time of arrest.

EFCC arrest 19 staff of a fake investment company that defrauded people to the tune of two billion naira in?Port Harcourt

Princess Tsaroigbara, Public Relations Officer ( PRO) of the Company  told  interrogators that her company  was  into “Digital Financial and other Technological Services” and was not sure if the company was fully registered with the  Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.  

Scores of defrauded customers thronged the premises of the Company seeking the intervention of the EFCC.

Items recovered from the company are computer units and a sum of N459, 300(  Four Hundred and Fifty Nine Thousand,  Three Hundred Naira only). The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded. .

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